Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postal pay-raise bill (the Eisenhower Administration was strongly on record against anything more than a 7.6% increase). The session backfired: Republican Congressmen, angry at their leaders and aware of the powerful postal workers' lobby, joined with Democrats to vote 328 to 66 in favor of the 8.8% hike. Later, the Senate passed the bill...
...Hike to P.B.H...
...Actually, he is doing better than figures of the past few years indicate. Since 1939, farmers' incomes have risen more sharply than nonfarmers' (276% against 189%). The purchasing power of individual farmers has also been disproportionately higher; it is up 70% since 1939, compared with a 50% hike for non-farmers. Moreover, the trend from farm to city cut the number of farmers by 3.5% last year. Thus, per capita farm income last year rose slightly (from $914 in '53 to $918). At the same time per capita nonfarm income fell 3%, so that the farmer...
...specific strike issues are now obscured. What started as a walkout over ordinary union demands-for a 20? hourly wage hike, a union shop, seniority rights, arbitration of grievances-has turned into an old-fashioned finish fight between the nation's No. 2 union and its No. 2 plumbing-fixtures manufacturer. The union vowed war "until doomsday." Said Kohler: "No outsider can determine our operation...
...true that soon after Utamaro Ukiyo-e art sharply declined. Hiroshige (1797-1858) was the last Ukiyo-e master. An Edo fireman, Hiroshige quit fire fighting at 27 to hike up and down Japan sketching. He turned his sketches into a flood of prints showing the nation's famed views, stopping places, bridges, rivers and fairs in all kinds of weather. Bales of Hiroshige's prints found their way to Europe, did as much as anything to spark modern painting. Manet, Degas, Lautrec and Van Gogh all learned from Ukiyo-e art. But after Hiroshige's death...